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essential productivity skills: Creating labels in GmailCreating e-mail lists in ContactsInstall Google Notifier to set up web Gmail as your default email client (this has saved me hours of work)Creating collections in Google Docs and organizing your filesMaking a copy of a document & saving for yourself (to edit)Sharing a collection with a group (made in your Contacts list) or a colleagueMake a Google Doc public, for linking on your class blogCheck the revision history in a Google DocCreating events in Google Calendar and setting automatic reminders via e-mailCreating repeating events in Google CalendarImporting the school's calendar into your own Google CalendarCreating a Google Reader account and subscribing to feedsCreate a bundle of feeds in Reader for each class you teachAdding feeds to folders in ReaderRecording screencasts in QuickTime

We've discovered 52 great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.

tips for using/managing google docs in the classroom

A guide about publishing google docs on the web.

Great tips for google apps schools including: Create and assignment In Box with Google forms How to use the revision history Create and use templates

This is a great way to display images from a Google Presentation on a website, e.g., a Google Site. Go to: library.uwcsea.edu.sg to see how we are using this.

The features in Google Docs can be used to facilitate a digital writer's workshop based on peer editing, and they are particularly useful when combined with cooperative grouping strategies to fine-tune students' editing skills. While students are writing their drafts, teachers can take advantage of opportunities to lead small instructional groups to help them focus on specific cooperative grouping job-related skills, then students can share their drafts with other group members who use comments to suggest revisions based on their job. The immediate feedback provided by peers will likely encourage writers to check comments and revise at home and stay on task during classroom work time. The revision history will keep student comments and revisions honest and focused on the task.

New "Tool" option when in a Google doc -- a sidebar for searching pops up (also can highlight a word/phrase and right-click to search).

Some great screencasts showing how to use Google Docs -- by a Google Certified Teacher.... 

Chrome Extension to show changes made in a google doc. Love it!

Google is a vast machine with all sorts of apps, programs and tools. A lot of these - like Gmail and Google Docs - are clearly useful and loved by many. But hidden inside Google's network are some awesome, lesser-known gems that can make your life easier.

450 slides in a Google Doc Presentation = instant animation

Nice practical examples with screen shots of how google docs can be used and managed well in the classroom.

Tweets from the recent 21st Century Learning in Hong Kong conference -- collated in a Google Doc

Collaborative tool for designers - how cool is that?

EARCOS 2011 presentation -- a Google Doc

John Macgowan's slides on intro to Google Apps scripts

Create little movies of your google docs stories. Could be fun for Literacy & writing workshop